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NEWS ABOUT: tech bubble

tech bubble stories: 3 news summaries

Google Taps Quattrone for Yahoo Advice

It's his first high-profile post since legal troubles last year

Apr 11, 08 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google has hired controversial former dot-com banker Frank Quattrone to advise the company on its increasingly complicated role in Yahoo’s takeover drama, the New York Times reports. It’s Quattrone’s first high-visibility gig since his obstruction-of-justice conviction was overturned last year. Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a longtime... More »

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Yahoo • Google • AOL • Microsoft • Eric Schmidt • tech bubble • Frank Quattrone

Ex-Qwest CEO's Conviction Overturned

Exclusion of expert testimony nets
Nacchio new trial

Mar 17, 08 3:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - A federal appeals court overturned Joe Nacchio’s guilty verdict today and ordered a new trial for the ex-Qwest CEO before a different judge, the Denver Post reports. The court ruled that the district judge who presided over Nacchio's trial on insider trading charges erred in excluding testimony from an... More »

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Qwest • Joseph Nacchio • insider trading • reversed conviction • overturned verdict • tech bubble • appellate court

OPINION

How Obama Is Like a Dot-Com

Politics of hope are a bubble waiting to burst

Feb 19, 08 11:35 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama may be generating excitement across America, but so did tech stocks during the late-'90s bubble, writes Der Spiegel’s Gabor Steingart. "The rhetoric all sounds strangely familiar," he warns, comparing Obama’s campaign to that absurd era in the market’s history. Just as the bubble... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Obama 2008 • foreign policy • Obama-mentum • tech bubble

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